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enEngineered Organisms for Making Cheap Sugarhttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/423442/engineered-organisms-for-making-cheap-sugar/
<p>One company’s method for low-cost, high-yield sugar production could help biofuels compete with fossil fuels.</p><p>In a bid to make biofuels cheaper, a startup called <a href="http://www.proterro.com/" target="_blank">Proterro</a>, based in Princeton, New Jersey, is developing a way to cut the cost of making sugar, a basic building block for ethanol. The company is engineering photosynthetic microorganisms to secrete large amounts of sugar, and it is designing a bioreactor for growing the organisms using small amounts of water. </p>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 04:00:00 +0000digitalservices423442 at http://www.technologyreview.comGenes to Make Hydrocarbon Fuelshttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/420041/genes-to-make-hydrocarbon-fuels/
<p>The startup LS9 reveals a discovery that could lead to biofuels that would work in conventional engines.</p><p>Many species naturally make small amounts of hydrocarbons. Now researchers at the startup <a href="http://www.ls9.com/" target="_blank">LS9</a>, based in South San Francisco, CA, have described the genes and enzymes responsible for this production of alkanes, the major components of fuels such as <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/24554/">diesel</a>. The findings, reported in the current issue of the journal <em>Science</em>, have allowed the researchers to engineer <em>E. coli</em> bacteria that can secrete alkane hydrocarbons capable of being burned in diesel engines. </p>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000digitalservices420041 at http://www.technologyreview.com